Starting from the deputy company commander of the Soldier Assault Team

In addition, when grassroots regiments and reconnaissance battalions send out training plans and requests for training assignments, the clerks receive and register the documents, and then forward them to the corresponding staff officers.

We notified grassroots units to come to the department for meetings, to collect training equipment, and to collect the program documents, and we notified each unit by phone.

At noon and in the afternoon, the clerks also have no free time, as they need to coordinate with the logistics department and apply for general office supplies and office cleaning supplies.

The department is responsible for the management of materials and equipment, including the storage of training rulers, topographic maps, assessment equipment, and live ammunition markers. All entries and exits are recorded.

The logistical support work includes setting up tables and chairs, preparing tea and water, and arranging plan files in advance for departmental review meetings and division-wide training coordination meetings, as well as cleaning up the venue and organizing meeting minutes after the meetings.

There were also temporary errand-running tasks such as delivering approval forms to the confidentiality section for signature, coordinating vehicle quotas for training at the vehicle depot, and verifying ammunition requisition plans at the ordnance section.

When staff officers work overtime, clerks also have to stay up with them to cover for them. When staff officers stay up late to write training and exercise plans, clerks are always there to add hot water, replenish paper and ink, and mimeograph any temporary revisions to the plans.

Confidential drafts written by staff members that are discarded midway through the process must be centrally destroyed by the authorities. Confidential cabinets, doors, and windows must also be frequently checked to prevent unattended confidential drawings.

After all the staff members have left by the end of the overtime shift, the clerk still has to check one by one whether the documents in each office are locked in the cabinet, draw the curtains, turn off the power, lock the department door, and then take the department door key back to the duty room.

During training exercises, the clerks also need to pack the complete set of plans, ledgers, and topographic maps in advance, bind them into file bags, and transport them to the training site with the support vehicle.

Upon arriving at the training site, we were responsible for setting up temporary metal storage boxes for materials in the field, still adhering to the two-person, two-lock policy, collecting training reports from each squad daily, and compiling and binding them overnight.

Supervise all paper documents of the training director's office, be responsible for on-site printing and distribution of daily training adjustment instructions, and be responsible for the final inventory of all files and drawings after the training, verify the quantity, and re-file them after returning to the warehouse.

Although the clerk's job is numerous and varied, the boundaries of authority and responsibility are very clear. They are only responsible for organizing, transmitting, and storing information. They cannot draft any training plans or programs themselves, and they have no authority to write any advisory or business documents.

Unauthorized access to confidential exercise and troop deployment information inside the cabinet is prohibited. Unlocking is only for accompanying purposes. The public key must never leave one's person and must not be handed over to any staff officer or grassroots cadre for safekeeping.

All classified waste paper must be destroyed in a unified manner. No one may keep or take away any paper materials from any department. Any violation will be investigated and held accountable.

Those who commit minor offenses will be criticized and educated, while those who commit serious offenses will be given a major demerit and discharged from the military early. In cases of particularly serious circumstances, criminal liability will be pursued.

Therefore, for clerks, after transferring overdue old files from the archives at the end of each year, the metal safe can free up most of its space.

No need to keep things crammed full every day. Newly received documents and grassroots reports can be neatly organized and placed away. There's no need to repeatedly squeeze and pile up files, significantly reducing the workload of document organization and storage.

In the short term, there is no need to bind, catalog, and inventory old archives in large quantities, nor is there a need to frequently visit the confidentiality section and archives room for transfer approval. This reduces a lot of hard work involving running errands and writing ledgers by hand.

The frequency of accessing documents to double-locked cabinets will also decrease, as old files from various training exercises and drills in previous years have been archived.

Staff officers mostly look at materials kept from the last two years when reviewing documents, resulting in less data being reviewed and fewer instances of document accompaniment for lock-picking and registration.

This slightly reduced the pressure on the clerks, significantly decreasing their workload, leaving only basic duties, which was a rare period of relaxation.

In addition, when all the major training and exercises are over, there is a gap of one or two months between the next major mission. During this period, there is no need for mass printing or compiling complete plans, which makes things much easier.

Zhang Anbang could understand the pain of being a clerk. If he were in that situation, he would also want to move what needs to be moved and clean up what needs to be cleaned up as soon as possible, so that the work would be much easier.

No matter where you are—in the military, a public institution, or a private company—who would be willing to work more if they were paid the same salary?

Looking at the file names on the labels, Zhang Anbang took out the files he needed from the cabinet one by one: brown paper bags, file boxes, one after another, quickly piling up a large pile.

Looking at the files Zhang Anbang brought out, the clerk's mouth almost stretched to his ears in a grin. Now his workload was much lighter.

As all the files to be taken were crammed into the cabinet, the clerk cheerfully recorded them one by one in the ledger, fulfilling his supervisory duties.

After all the files were cleared out, the military green metal cabinet clicked shut again.

The clerk took out the ledger, made all the records, and suppressed a smile as he prepared to start moving the files. Although he tried to maintain a serious expression, the smile on his lips was harder to suppress than AK's.

Seeing the lively scene on the two sides, staff officers like Ma Zhen put down their work and came to help. This was a task to lend a hand to the leader, and even if the leader didn't ask, they had to do something.

Seven or eight burly men moved the files together. Although there were quite a few files, each man carried a stack, and they all moved them into Zhang Anbang's office without everyone having to make two trips.

After thanking everyone, Zhang Anbang opened the safe in his office and began to pack the moved files into it according to the labels.

After a full twenty-five minutes, Zhang Anbang finally sorted all the files he had brought over and placed them into the military green metal safe in his office, which was 180cm high, 85cm wide, and 40cm deep, according to time and category.

The archive files are arranged evenly and neatly, with map tubes standing upright on the sides, and there are basically no gaps left on each layer.

Looking at all the file folders and boxes neatly arranged, Zhang Anbang breathed a sigh of relief, took out the soft cloud cigarette he had taken from Deputy Division Commander Li from his pocket, and lit it up happily.

After relaxing, he took out the winter training plans from 01 and 02, and neatly arranged them on the left side of his desk.

Then he pulled up the light-blocking metal panel on the inside of the glass observation door at the top of the cabinet, closed the cabinet door, and sat down at his desk to start looking through the specific files from previous years one by one.

A day passed in the blink of an eye, and Zhang Anbang had completely immersed himself in his work, showing no signs of being unfamiliar with the office.

Although he had never worked in an agency before, he had done all the work that the deputy head of the training section was responsible for, just not in such a systematic way.

He had done everything before, from leading troops and training them to writing various exercises and training plans, but he had done them separately, unlike now where he was doing them all together.

Most importantly, he had perfected even the specific details himself before, so now he is only writing an outline, which is not difficult for him.

This is why he was able to get the work organized and efficient in less than two days.